What types of activities do our students work on and how do they benefit from these activities? How does KUNO method support students as they progress from 3 to 6 years old?

Here are the highlights of our latest lesson.

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NURSERY 1 (born in 2016)

Young children use shapes as a way of defining and organising visual information. As children base their understanding of shapes on examples, they need to experience a rich variety of shapes in each shape category and be aware of the geometric properties of shapes so as to acquire flexible, accurate “visual thinking” skills. ​In this lesson, your child will first be challenged to identify 3 or more ways to sort various shapes, rather than sorting shapes as directed. Besides that, they will also be using visual discrimination skills to match a full-colour picture to a all-black shadow picture.

This will enhance their understanding on geometric properties of shapes as well as their pre-reading skills to help them distinguish letters and numbers.

NURSERY 2 (born in 2015)

Learning about shapes sets the foundation for understanding geometry. It also supports pre-reading skills (recognising letters which are made up of shapes), and the learning of other mathematics and science skills such as observing, comparing, classifying, patterning and etc.

In this lesson, we introduce a 3D object, a cube. First, your child will guess/count how many faces there are on a cube. Then we will introduce a net of a cube (a net is what a 3D shape would look like if it were opened up flat) to show your child a cube is made up of six (6) equal squares (faces) and have him/her fold the net to make a cube for more memorable learning.

Next, to further develop your child’s part-part-whole thinking about shapes, your child will compose various 2D figures using triangles (eg. a square using 2 triangles, a rectangle using 4 triangles and so on) and solve picture puzzles using triangles.

These activities will help your child understand shape constancy, and recognise that a rectangular door maintains its shape of a rectangle, even though it may look like a trapezium when you are opening the door!

In this lesson, children will think carefully about shapes and their attributes while constructing a given shape. This includes learning how to piece different parts together to form the shape required by identifying the number of corners and sides each shape has.

This provides an opportunity for students to notice which attributes are unique to given shapes, leading them to discover properties of those shapes.

KINDERGARTEN 2 (born in 2013)

Part-part-whole is a key concept in mathematics and can be transferred to the arithmetic concepts of addition, subtraction and division.

In this lesson, children explore the idea that a shape or a figure can be made up of different parts. Applying the part-part-whole concept to shapes is important to help your child grasp the idea that there are relationships between different parts and how these parts can make up a whole.​Through the process, they will learn that there could be more than one way to fit the pieces together in a puzzle. Children further develop their spatial reasoning skills as they rotate and overlap shapes so as to view them in different orientation and perspectives.